Preventing Sexual Harassment Liability

Program Overview
Sexual harassment litigation is currently one of the fastest growing areas of legal practice with filings
having increased over 150 percent in recent years.  Median jury awards are over $200,000 and climbing
– not including attorney fees.

Program Curriculum
The objective of this seminar is to empower human resource managers and supervisors to take concrete
steps to prevent company liability for alleged acts of sexual harassment.  The seminar will break down
complex legal concepts into comprehensible layman terms.

 

 

• Brief overview of federal discrimination law;
• Recognizing discriminatorily motivated "tangible employment actions" that trigger automatic employer liability;
• Implementation of the necessary policies to create an affirmative defense to allegations of a hostile 
  workplace environment;
• Review of recent Unites States Supreme Court precedent that lowers the standard for establishing
  plaintiff allegations of unlawful retaliatory action.
  
  All participants will receive certification of having completed Sexual Harassment Prevention Training.  
  Such certification is a critical element in demonstrating that an employer has exercised "reasonable
  care" to prevent sexual harassment.  In the absence of such reasonable care, employers may be held
  strictly liable for a hostile work environment created by supervisory action.
  
  This seminar is taught by Lee Sehan, Esq. or Lucas Middlebrook of Seham, Seham, Meltz & Peterson,
  LLP.